David, 

I did understand your question. I have StarTool now so I cannot verify the 
8.5 PDS mechanism, but it's now subcommand FIXPDS. If that is missing in 
8.5, I apologize. 

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JO.Skip Robinson
SCE Infrastructure Technology Services
Electric Dragon Team Paddler 
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From:   "Jousma, David" <[email protected]>
To:     [email protected]
Date:   08/13/2012 11:07 AM
Subject:        Re: modifying secondary space allocation
Sent by:        IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]>



Thanks Skip.   I think you are misunderstanding my request.   I don't want 
to add space to the dataset, I want to change the secondary space 
allocation from nothing(or something small) to something realistic, so 
that when space is needed, it gets more than just 1 track(we have many app 
datasets where secondary space is set to 1 TRK).  John Kalinch hit the 
nail on the head with the CBT CDSCB program.

Unless I am missing something, I don't see that function in PDS.  If it 
does, please give me a sample command line command that will do it.

-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On 
Behalf Of Skip Robinson
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 1:53 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: modifying secondary space allocation

The fully supported program product StarTool can modify secondary space of 
any PDS, allocated or not. Its ancestor, the PDS Command--available on 
CBT--has performed this function for decades. I've never heard of a 
failure. 

Note that modifying secondary space does not touch the allocation at all, 
only the external data set attributes. The next time space is needed, the 
system will add a secondary extent as needed. Be careful though: some PDS 
uses may not allow expansion. In particular, link list data sets will not 
see a new extent automatically. JES2 proclibs may require a close/open 
sequence--not a JES2 restart--to pick up an additional extent. 

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JO.Skip Robinson
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